The log house occupied by the Presbyterian missionary to the Indians in 1744 was a short distance away on the side road. It was here the youthful zealot wrote part of his famed journal. Featured zImage Credit: Photo: David Brainerd Marker. www.hmdb.org/PhotoFullSize.asp?PhotoID=104167. Read more...
From Wikipedia: The Livingstone Memorial built in 1899 marks the spot where missionary explorer David Livingstone died on 1 May 1873 in Chief Chitambo’s village at Ilala near the edge of the Bangweulu Swamps in Zambia. His heart was buried there under a mpundu (also called mvula) tree by his loyal attendants Chuma, Suza Mniasere and Vchopere, before they departed for the coast carrying his body.[1] In their Read more...
“The Old Rugged Cross,” one of the world’s best-loved hymns, was composed here in 1912 by the Rev. George Bennard (1873-1958). The son of an Ohio coal miner, Bennard was a lifelong servant of God, chiefly in the Methodist ministry. He wrote the words and music of over 300 other hymns. None achieved the fame of “The Old Rugged Cross,” Read more...
Image Credit: The Acts and Monuments Online. www.dhi.ac.uk/foxe/index.php?realm=more&gototype=&type=image&book=11. ‘WORTHY THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN‘ ‘THEY OVERCAME HIM BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND THE WORD OF THEIR TESTIMONY AND THEY LOVED NOT THEIR LIVES UNTO THE DEATH. Rev. XII. II‘ To the Glory of GOD in his suffering Saints This Monument is raised to perpetuate the great principles of Read more...
Pioneer missionary, John Mason Peck (1789-1858), saturated Missouri and Illinois with the gospel, evangelizing, organizing churches, and establishing the Baptist movement in the West. At Southern Illinois University Dental School, this memorial plaque highlights his life and legacy: On this site in 1831, John Mason Peck (1789-1858), pioneer Baptist preacher, author, and educator, established the school which became Shurtleff Read more...
From the marker: This building, Kiokee Church’s sixth meeting house, was erected in 1937 with the help of many Georgia Baptists as a monument to Daniel Marshall. Not later than 1770, he was arrested for preaching in Colonial Georgia at a site east of this marker. At a trial in Augusta before Colonel Edward Barnard and Parson Edward Ellington of Read more...
In the median of US 221, near the Appling courthouse, the people of Georgia, in 1903, erected a monument to Daniel Marshall and his “devotion and consecration…to the cause of Christ.” (See Chapter 15.). copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices Rev. Daniel Marshall Born 1706, Died 1784, Pioneer Read more...
In the 700 block of Church Street, the remains of Edmund Botsford (1745-1819), early pastor of Antipedo Baptist (later First Baptist) Church, lie buried in the Old Baptist Cemtery. A marker was placed at Botsford’s grave in 2004. copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices In the plan Read more...
Founded in 1729 by William Screven’s son Elisha, Georgetown lies sixty miles north of Charleston. The Screven family cemetery is on Prince Street, near the intersection of Prince and Scriven Streets. copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices Here are buried William Screven (1624–1713) and other members of his Read more...
On Washington Avenue, stands the Thomas Jefferson Religious Freedom Monument, made from stones sent from churches across the country. It commemorates Jefferson’s Virginia Religious Freedom Statute, promising that “no man shall… suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief.” The Statute became the basis for the religion clause of the First Amendment. copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History Read more...
Hopewell Baptist Church is on West Broad Street (Hopewell, New Jersey). One of its most notable pastors was Oliver Hart (1723-95). Gravestones in the church cemetery include those of Isaac Eaton and John Hart, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Hart was not a member here, but he donated the land on which the building stands. Revolutionary War veterans lie Read more...
Hopewell Academy (est. 1756), a Latin grammar school, founded by Isaac Eaton, pastor at Hopewell Baptist, was the earliest Baptist academy in America. The building is now a private home, but a historical plaque stands near the street. The academy’s alumni included James Manning, founder of Brown University. Other alumni included the “Baptist Whitefield,” Hezekiah Smith, who was a classmate with Read more...
John Myles organized the earliest Baptist church in Wales, in 1651. During Oliver Cromwell’s rule, Myles’s church occupied the thirteenth-century Church of St. Illtyd, located on a small country lane, at Ilston, near the west end of the Swansea airfield. at the Restoration of the British monarchy, in 1660, officials of Charles II ousted John Myles and his congregation from St. Read more...
In 1789, William Carey and his family moved into a cottage across the street from Leicester’s Harvey Lane Baptist Church, which he shepherded to the time of their departure to India in 1793. The Harvey Lane building no longer exists. When Harvey Lane Baptist outgrew its building, in 1845, the congregation moved to Belvoir Street and changed its name to Read more...
Inside the Church of St. Sepulchre without Newgate, at Holborn Viaduct, a hand bell known as the Execution Bell, resides in a glass case, situated near the entrance of a blocked-up tunnel that once connected the church with Newgate Prison. At midnight prior to execution days, the church’s bellman would walk through the tunnel and into the prison. Standing outside Read more...
Luther Rice preached his final sermon at Pine Pleasant Baptist Church (est. 1831). His remains were laid to rest here in the churchyard, at 457 Pine Pleasant Road. Under a distinctive canopy, his tomb has a marble slab with a biographical inscription. copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices From Wikipedia: Read more...
Founded by Shubal Stearns, in 1755, Sandy Creek Baptist Church is located at 4765 Sandy Creek Church Road, Liberty. Stearns’s obelisk tombstone stands in the church cemetery. Historical monuments on the grounds provide fascinating glimpses into the Sandy Creek heritage. The year 2005 marked the 250th anniversary of Stearns’s organization of the church. In 2015, Sandy Creek Baptist erected a new, Read more...
Marked by a tall obelisk at 1500 Washington Avenue, is the grave of George Washington’s mother. Near the obelisk, an inscription on Meditation Rock says of her, “Here Mary Ball Washington prayed for the safety of her son and country during the dark days of the Revolution.” Mary’s home is at 1200 Charles Street. copyrighted and used by permission from David Read more...
A bronze statue of Bunyan stands at the north end of High Street. copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices Featured Image Credit: Simon Speed, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons Read more...
See the Martyrs Memorial, a stone monument, near Balliol College, at the intersection of St. Giles, Magdalen, and Beaumont Streets. The Memorial commemorates Oxford’s Reformer-martyrs, Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley, and Hugh Latimer. The earlest Baptists were products of the Reformation. copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices 5 Minutes in Read more...
